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by jbjohns 17y ago
>Lisp goes significantly farther towards shoving FP down your throat than Python does any individual paradigm. This is simply not the case. It has the best OO system in existence. It has the loop macro (mini language). In actual prac
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by jbjohns 17y ago
Actually, lisp matches all of those as well. It might not be the easiest to learn coming from C, but otherwise it's not bad.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
I feel almost exactly the same [1], and I too would love to have a reasoned, non-emotional debate about this with someone to see if I am indeed missing something. But I think lionheart is correct that it's probably not realistic. I think
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by jbjohns 18y ago
I live in Switzerland, yes, but I have Scottish college who worked previously in Germany and several friends from South Africa who've worked all over Europe. None of them can get much past "ja" or "nein". The thing to remember is that, out
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by jbjohns 18y ago
I'm living in a country now that has four national languages. None of which are English, yet I know several people who've lived here for years and can't speak a word of any of those languages. English is international these days and will
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Personally I would like to see things get to a point that people switch countries as often as they switch jobs. Anything that would force countries to compete with benefits vs. costs. Many people talk about market forces driving ineffic
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by jbjohns 18y ago
With all due respect, I disagree. Life is about you and the people you care about (which could be the whole world, but generally isn't). IMHO, you don't owe anything to some country you happen to be born in. They should be treated ex
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by jbjohns 18y ago
It's $80k/year. Anything over that is taxed, but at the higher bracket. That is, if you make $85k, the $5k isn't taxed at the 0-25k (or whatever it is) bracket, but the one that $85k is in. If you would still have to pay after this deduct
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by jbjohns 18y ago
As much as I would like to see the end of the EU (or at least the Euro), Spain and Italy can't leave; they can't afford to. Imagine what the speculators would do to a new currency Spain/Italy introduced after not being able to survive in t
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by jbjohns 18y ago
>you may think that you can simply renounce your US citizenship, burn your passport and call it a day, but as of 1986 the IRS is able to come after you for taxes for up to 10 years after renunciation of citizenship. Actually, they can o
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by jbjohns 18y ago
SBCL actually does a lot of inferred type checking when type declarations are present.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Sorry, but this post is nonsense. Mac's font rending not in the same league as Linux/Freetype ?? Nope, it's far above it.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Ok, agreed. It was your "or any other state" that confused me (as in: "including mine").
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by jbjohns 18y ago
I agree with all your points, the OP just had one sentence and I wasn't sure what was meant by it.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
What do you mean by this (child gone missing)? You don't care about child kidnappers even though you could potentially see the child and alert someone? I can be pretty cold myself from time to time, but if that's what you mean that's pretty
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Odd comment in the thread about Ubuntu becoming mainstream. Do you want linux mainstream? It's understandable if not, being mainstream means taking on all those really computer illiterate and all their... special questions. But if peopl
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by jbjohns 18y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that: http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfoli...
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Do I think people should be able to have a burning stick in their mouth that increases their risk of getting cancer (which will drive my insurance costs up as well, potentially) and even more so to people who are unfortunate enough to be
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by jbjohns 18y ago
You do realize that this whole thing came crashing down because of the very lightly (if any) regulated CDO's right?
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by jbjohns 18y ago
I understand what you're saying, but I'm not convinced. Think about, e.g. toilet paper. If you became a million/billionaire tomorrow, you might buy slightly more expensive, more comfortable TP, but you wouldn't spend hundreds of dollars p
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by jbjohns 18y ago
There is certainly something to be said for being a big fish in a little pond, but just make sure that pond isn't a puddle.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Tesco looks like a solid competitor, though if I were them I wouldn't slow down now. I would speed up while loans are hard to get. The longer they wait, the longer Walmart has to use their dominance to finance completely duplicating what
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Universal prosperity, I would say no. Just having large sums of money doesn't stop people from being greedy (i.e. wanting to spend absolutely as little as they possibly can).
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by jbjohns 18y ago
"I think that the only sane way is .... the most difficult approach and usually impossible to make." Sorry, but that doesn't sound very sane to me. :)
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by jbjohns 18y ago
You had some good points, but it felt to me like everything you said was repeated 2 or 3 times. "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead." - Mark Twain
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by jbjohns 18y ago
That's arguable, but it's not arguable that all these horribly inconvenient seat licenses, keys, DVD zone codes, etc., are a result of pirating.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
You forgot the link?
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Um.. what exactly have we done? Before the economy tanked the US was using more gas then ever. China hasn't slowed their opening of new coal power plants much, if any. So aside of thinking positive thoughts about climate, what exactly ha
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by jbjohns 18y ago
You don't see how it could increase the price? Think about all the money (e.g. developer/researcher time) being spent on trying to stop piracy. These are costs that are passed directly onto the customers.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Sure, companies are in business to make money. But do you truly believe that piracy has no cost? It should be an extremely simple logical exercise to prove it does: just imagine if everyone always did it in every situation.

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